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Parent topics
- Slavery [r]: A social system in which people have legal rights of property ownership over others. [e]
- U.S. History [r]: The history of the United States of America from the colonial era to the present. [e]
Subtopics
- Black history [r]: A movement that developed out of the same forces that shaped the Civil Rights Movement. [e]
- Uncle Tom's Cabin [r]: 1851-52 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe depicting slave condtions in the American South. [e]
- American Civil War [r]: {1861-65) war by the U.S. to prevent 11 of its states (the Confederate States of America) from seceding; won by the U.S. after the death of 600,000 people and the abolishment of slavery. [e]
- Abraham Lincoln [r]: (1809-65) Sixteenth U.S. President (from 1861 to 1865) who prosecuted the American Civil War to reclaim 11 seceding states and abolish slavery; assassinated in 1865 near the beginning of his second term. Considered the greatest of all American presidents. [e]
- Jefferson Davis [r]: (1808-1889) Democratic Senator from Mississippi, Secretary of War, and president of the Confederate States of America. [e]
- John Brown [r]: (1800-59) American abolitionist who led a raid on the U.S. federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and was hanged for his efforts, becoming a martyr in the antislavery fight as a result. [e]
- Harriet Beecher Stowe [r]: (1811-96) American social reformer and novelist; wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. [e]
- Missouri Compromise [r]: A U.S. law, passed in 1820 and in effect until 1854 (when the Kansas Nebraska Act overrode it), that balanced desires of northern states to prevent expansion of slavery in the U.S. with those of southern states to expand slavery. [e]
- Compromise of 1850 [r]: In U.S. history a series of laws intending to resolve pro-slavery/anti-slavery issues but yielded only greater conflict leading, eventually, to the American Civil War. [e]
- Dred Scott decision [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Civil Rights Movement [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Freedmen's Bureau [r]: Federal agency created in March 1865 to help distressed refugees, primarily freed slaves, of the American Civil War. [e]
- Jim Crow [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ku Klux Klan [r]: Name of various secretive, white supremacy organizations originated in the United States of America after the Civil War. [e]
- Reconstruction [r]: The attempt from 1865 to 1877 in American history to resolve the issues of the American Civil War. [e]
- Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago [r]: A predominantly black church located in south Chicago with upwards of 10,000 members, established in 1961. [e]